Traditional Chinese medical treatment to invigorate blood and relieve stasis treatment of schizophrenia: Comparison with antipsychotics treatment

Abstract

In this study, 80 schizophrenic patients, divided into two groups of 40, were treated with traditional Chinese medicine to invigorate the blood and relieve stasis and antipsychotic drugs, and were observed by the rating methods of BPRS,TESS,CGI scale and hemorheology test. The results show that such traditional Chinese medicine to invigorate blood and relieve stasis has fewer side effects on schizophrenic patients than do antipsychotic drugs, and there is objective evidence of hemorheology changes. Traditional Chinese medicine is superior to antipsychotic drugs in the effects of anti-anxiety- depression and antipsychomotor inhibition, but it is less effective in controlling psychomotor excitation compared with antipsychotic drugs.